The RStoolbox R package has been updated after some testing in courses and by colleagues. Please update your package using update.packages() or install the RStoolbox again. New functions are: new function `validateMap()` for assessing map accuracy separately from...

great info sheet by USGS about Landsat. It covers history as well as technical specifications and applications. It is worth a read – check it out: http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2015/3081/fs20153081.pdf Share...

We updated our cheatsheet on spatial data handling in R. Beside some minor changes of common raster commands we also added now some of the new RStoolbox commands within a Remote Sensing operations section such as the command for supervised classification, fractional...

We are happy to announce the initial release of our *RStoolbox* package. The package has been developed by Benjamin Leutner and will be used extensively in our upcoming book “Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists – Using Open Source software“....

The book “Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists” by Martin Wegmann, Benjamin Leutner and Stefan Dech (edt) is finally submitted to the publisher. This book will cover all necessary steps to work with spatial data in an Open Source environment. Vector and raster...